Smart breadknife detecting cancerous tissues

Smart breadknife detecting cancerous tissues

Gallery They create a chip that controls the brain and administer drugs - Scientists from Imperial College New york in the USA, presented a scalpel that can distinguish cancerous tissue during surgery itself.  Overhere

The instrument instantly communicates what fabric cut and what to leave intact tissue, which is a huge advancement in surgical technology. Surgery in cancer, the surgeon must be absolutely certain to remove all the diseased cells to prevent relapse. Today solid tumors are removed with a margin of healthy tissue unable to determine precisely the cancerous area. Sometimes even tissues to be analyzed in the laboratory while the patient is anesthetized in the operating room; knife Scalpel presented by A Doctor, used electrosurgical system that heats the tissue while it sectioned with maximum accuracy;

This is connected to a spectrometer which detects the differences between the chemicals present in the smoke from cancerous tissue and healthy tissue. During their study, collected data Takas tissues of brain, lung, breast, and stomach and colon 300 patients’ cancer to develop a full report; The instrument uses this report to recognize during surgery is what type of tissue sectioning and determine if you are healthy in less than three seconds.

“We believe that the knife will serve to reduce the rates of recurrent tumor and to increase the chances of patient survival, "said the doctor himself. Knife not only has application to tumor level, but also in the detection of different types of bacteria in the fabrics, which serve for example to quickly distinguish horse meat of veal.